The CEO of the Reform Movement in Israel, Gilad Kariv, is demanding that the state revoke the operating license of cable’s Channel 20, “because it denies sufficient access to the Reform movement in Israel,” which, he claims, is a significant Jewish denomination among Israelis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet on Tuesday in his office with several religious members of his coalition for a discussion of the official recognition of the Reform movement’s right to its own prayer area of the Western Wall.
For the first time in the Knesset’s history, hundreds of North American Reform rabbis were guests at Wednesday’s official meeting of the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs.
